It is not the fact that the song makes money for somebody else or that the person who wrote the song gets money for it. Folk belongs to and in and with the folk. Capitalism is our political system, but sensitivity to the folk that vote should mean that who ever negotiates the sell of these songs says ok you can use the words or the music but you can't use both on your commercial. Unless you play the whole song. All 5 minutes of it. Then we would gain some exposure to some of the great folk songs and the commercials might not be so predictable. Of course, that means I have to think about something other than myself in the decision making process. Get off the animal farm.

I love the song and just heard it for the first time this summer. I can't wait to teach it to kids, a whole room of little chil'ren ridin' in my car car, brrrm brm brm brm brm brm brm brrm b' brrrm.(engine noise made by holding the lips loosely together and saying"boom" explosively so that the lips vibrate against each other, resulting in a sound something like "brrm.")